Transcript Physical adaptation

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How are animals able to survive in the wild?
Animals have certain adaptations that help them
to survive.
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How do you dress in the winter?
You wear warm clothes to protect yourself
from the weather.
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What if you are having a snowball fight?
You probably run away if someone is hitting you with
snowballs!
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The way you dress in the winter, and if you run and hide from
someone throwing snow at you are kinds of …
Adaptations.
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We can separate adaptations into two categories:
Physical
AND
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Behavioral
Question: What are the two types of
Adaptations?
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Answer: Physical and Behavioral
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Physical adaptations
are body shapes and colors that
allow an animal to find food, defend
itself, and to reproduce.
Physical adaptations help an
animal survive.
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Physical adaptation
Camouflage (use of color in a surrounding)
The chameleon can change its color to match its surroundings.
Can you do that?
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Physical adaptation
Mimicry
(looking or sounding like another living organism)
The Viceroy butterfly uses mimicry to look like the Monarch
butterfly. Can you tell them apart?
I’m the Viceroy!
Not poisonous
Poisonous
I’m the Monarch!
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Question: What term means “to look
or sound like another organism?
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Answer: Mimicry
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Physical adaptation
Chemical defenses (like venom, ink, sprays)
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Physical adaptations
Body coverings & parts (claws, beaks, feet, armor plates, skulls, teeth)
The elephant’s trunk is a physical adaptation that helps it to
clean itself, eat, drink, and to pick things up.
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Now let’s learn about
Behavioral Adaptations…
Behavioral Adaptations allow animals to
respond to life needs.
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Behavioral Adaptations are animals’ actions.
Each animal has methods of adapting by doing
different actions.
Flying
hibernating
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Fill in the blank:
_________ adaptations are animals’
actions they developed to survive.
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Answer: behavioral adaptations
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We can divide Behavioral Adaptations into two groups:
Instinctive
Learned
These behaviors
happen naturally &
don’t have to be
learned.
These behaviors
must be taught.
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Instinctive
behaviors
Gathering & storing food
Finding shelter
happen naturally & don’t
need to be learned
=
Defending oneself
Raising young
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Hibernating
Migrating
Fill in the blank:
Hibernating is an example of an
________ behavior.
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Answer: instinctive behavior
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Learned behaviors
=
Must be learned by experience,
or taught to you by parents.
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So to review . . . In this lesson, we have learned about
animal adaptations.
There are 2 ways to describe adaptations:
Physical
and
Behavioral
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Physical adaptations are body structures.
Some examples of physical adaptations are:
Camouflage
Mimicry
Chemical defenses
Body coverings & parts
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Question: Name at least two
physical adaptations
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Answer:
- Camouflage
- Mimicry
- Chemical defense
- Body covering and parts
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Behavioral Adaptations are animals’ actions.
Behavioral Adaptations can be
Instinctive
or
Learned.
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The next time you read about
an animal in the wild, or when
you see one on television, think
about its adaptations….
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